It was surprisingly easy and rather fun!
Now one of the tricks in dyeing wool is to not over agitate it, or it becomes very grumpy to downright wrathful with you and will felt itself in revenge. I did manage to slightly over work the yarn and I got some felting. When I unwound the skein, I had to pull it apart from itself. Some areas were only slightly felted, some places a little more so. Nothing too bad. The yarn is still soft and workable.
These colors were accomplished with Grape, Tropical Punch, and Berry Blue Kool-Aid. It didn't dye as evenly as I had hoped, and where I had tied the looped skein together didn't take as well either (tied a little too tightly), but I am calling this a success. I now know what this is all about, and I know what I shouldn't do next time.
These will be made into little fingerless glove/mitt things for the baby water dragon. Wrist warmers? Something of that nature, hence cutting the yarn length in half. I didn't find a proper pattern to follow, so I don't trust myself to leave enough yarn for a second glove once the first one is done.
Before I start, I need to go get myself some new knitting needles. Most of mine have mysteriously disappeared, and I have hunted desperately for them.
It's rather frustrating.
Next dye project will be for making a Mad Hat. I am leaning towards a drastically dark purple red that has a lot of black influence. I'll need about 350 yards of yarn for that. I can't wait to start dyeing some more.
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